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...front cover) California is a phenomenon as well as a state. Its soil rises to the highest point in the 48 United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest...
...land for tourists. In 1929 nearly 22,000 people sailed four days and a half across 2,000 miles of Pacific Ocean to see Hawaii's famed hedges of night-blooming cereus, to lie lazily on its beaches, explore its volcanoes, taste its papaias and mangos, smell its fragrant pikake blossoms, listen to its ukuleles. For these and like blessings they left $11,000,000 behind, a sort of thank-offering which the Hawaiians gratefully received...
Ambergris is hard to recognize. Though it is usually ash-grey, it may be white, black, yellow or mottled like marble. It may have a fragrant odor, or an overpowering stench. Some experts claim that even chemical analysis is shaky and that ambergris, like a fine wine, may be truly identified only by its bouquet. For use in perfumes raw ambergris must be ground in a mortar, soaked for six months in 95% alcohol...
...Author Anderson went to see her. She seemed to him "an American woman of the old sort, one who cares for the handmade goodies and scorns the factory-made foods, and in her own great kitchen she is making something with her materials, something sweet to the tongue and fragrant to the nostrils...
Dogs are all things to all men. As they are, cur and hound, bitch and pup, Tray and Nero, the names that men apply to them betray the way that men think of them. No name for a dog carries less than the nasty meaning unconsciously given fragrant words like "stink," nor has any animal gained such universal, nay, such high praise. All who learn to read know the foul loathing for the hound which Shakespeare held, the fear and contempt which the beast inspired in the ancients; those who have no knowledge of the creature's filthy ways have...